Car-door.



R. A. PH!LLIPS.

CAR DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 29, l9l5.

Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

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Patented Mar. 20, 1917.

R. A. PHILUPS.

CAR DOOR.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 29, 191

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RUSSELL A. PHILLIPS, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.

CAR-DOOR.

Specification of Letters Patent. Pat'ented'Ma 20 1917 Application filed October '29, 1915. Serial No. 58,607.

tion of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to improvements in freight car doors.

The object ofthe present invention is to improve the construction of freight car doors and toprovide a simple, practical and comparatively inexpensive double sliding freight car door adapted to move within the Walls of the car and thereby obviate the necessity of hanging doors on the exterior of the cars with their attendant dangers and liability to loss and capable of easy sliding whereby the doors may be quickly opened and closed. 7

A further object of the invention is to provide a sliding freight car door of this character which will be storm tight and which will have both of the doors or sections exposed to viewfrom the interior of the car so that the sliding of the door may be seen at both the inside and outside of the car.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claim hereto appended, it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion and minor details of construction maybe resorted to without departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantages of the invention.

In the drawin s t Figure 1 is a front elevation of a sliding car door constructed in accordance with this v invention, a portion of the car being in section,

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional view of the same, the door sections being. open,

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken longitudinally of the car, the sections of the door being open,

Fig. 4 is a vertical sectional view on the line 4-4 of Fig. 3,

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail sectional view of the lower portion of the car illustrating the manner of mounting the door sections, Fig. 6 is a detail sectional view on the line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

Like numerals of reference desi nate corresponding parts in 'the'several, gures of the drawings.

In the accompanying drawings in which is illustrated the preferred embodiment-of the invention, 1 designates a freight car provided in its side Wall 2 with a door opening 3 and equipped with a sliding door composed of two sectioned which when open are received within vertical longitudinal pockets 5 thereby obviating the necessity of hanging sliding doors on the exterior of cars-and endangering the lives of persons and at the same time subjecting railroads to the loss of such doors. The vertical pockets are formed by the side walls of the carand inner vertical partitions, 6 which are connected at their rear vertical edges and top edges with the sides of the door and at their lower edges with .the bottom 7' of the car. The side wall or side of the car is provided at the top of the door opening with a longitudinal groove -or way 8'extending entirely across the door opening and to the rear walls of the said pockets. The bottom of the car is also provided with a longitudinal groove or way 9 receiving the lower edges of the door sections and provided with a metallic track 10. The sliding door sections are provided with wheels 11 having flat peripheries and arranged to run along the rail or track 10. By this construction, the door sections slide easily and they are adapted to be opened and closed with greater rapidity than the ordinary sliding doors hung on the exterior of freight cars.

The door sections abut when closed against upper and lower stop blocks 12 and 13 and they are provided at their adjacent verticahedges with metallic strips 14 and 15 arranged interiorly and exteriorly of the car and close the space between the adjacent or approximately meeting edges of the door sections. The door sections are also provided adjacent to the metallic strips with handles 16 which are located beyond the en- 'trances of the pockets or recesses in which the sliding doors are received when the door sections are in their open position. side wall of the car is provided at the lower ends of the recesses or pockets?) with narrow The ' width of the'pockets and they new horizontal openings 17 and the partition or inner walls 6 orthe recesses or pockets 5 are provided at their upper portions with relatively large openings 18. lhese openings permit the door sections to be viewed from the interior and exterior of the car without afiecting the storm proof character of the door and as the door extends below the upper face of the bottom of the car, it is adapted to eliectively exclude water from the interior of the same. The upper interior opening 18 and the lower exterior opening 17 are substantially the entire expose the sliding door sections and facilitate an easy and rapid operation of the same in the opening and closing of the doors.

The car is provided at the bottom at the outer side of the bottom groove or way. with a narrow metallic strip 19 extending upwardly from the bottom of the recess to the level of the fioor and forming an outer Wall. This strip which is adapted to hold the doors against outward movement at the bottom will prevent them from being pried open at the'stop blocks. Also there is no liability of the doors being accidentally pushed outward at the bottom.

The car door is adapted to be locked and sealed in the ordinary manner and it will be apparent that it will be impossible to open the car Without breaking the seal or fastener of the door.

tom of the car and forming pockets which extend inwardly from the sides of the door opening, a track mounted in the groove and having its upper tread surface located below the upper surface of the floor of the car, sliding door sections snugly fitting the pockets and provided at their lower edges with wheels arranged to run on the said track, said side walls being rovided beyond the door .opening with rdlatively narrow horizontal openings located below the upper surface of the bottom of the car and terminating adjacent to the front and back of the said pockets to afi'ord access to the lower edges of the sliding door sections, the wheels and the track.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RUSSELL A. PHILLIPS.

Witnesses:

E, LESLIE SrnNoE, Jr., M. HELEN TUCKER. 

